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GEOverse: An Undergraduate Research Journal: Research Dissemination Within and Beyond the Curriculum

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Geoscience Research and Education

Part of the book series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology ((ISET,volume 20))

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This perspective chapter outlines the development of GEOverse, an undergraduate research journal, developed for students to disseminate their research work. This online journal allows students to have a voice as an academic researcher and to close the gap in their experience of the research cycle. A range of UK universities have collaborated to develop an electronic journal for undergraduate research in the Geosciences, and it has inspired developments within the curriculum in a way that is appropriate to each institutional context. Dissemination of research work beyond the curriculum through conferences and publishing journal articles needs to be supported by the development of communication, in particular writing skills, within the curriculum. Increasing demand for publication opportunities by undergraduate geoscience students is evidenced by the increasing number of articles being submitted from overseas institutions.

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To the students and staff who have helped to create GEOverse.

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  1. Department of Social Science, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Helen Walkington

  2. Higher Education Academy, York, UK

    Helen Walkington

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  1. Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Vincent C. H. Tong

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Walkington, H. (2014). GEOverse: An Undergraduate Research Journal: Research Dissemination Within and Beyond the Curriculum. In: Tong, V. (eds) Geoscience Research and Education. Innovations in Science Education and Technology, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6946-5_14

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